﻿In Kiev's Independence Square, a battle rages on between a makeshift army of Molotov cocktail-throwing protesters who are demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovich and his government, and a phalanx of black-clad Berkut state riot police. The protesters insist that their country has been betrayed by a corrupt government that has chosen to align itself with Russia and halt Ukraine's aspiration to build closer ties with the European Union. However, as the death toll continues to rise and smoke from the flames of burning vehicles hangs over the very heart of the capital, many questions are left unanswered. Just who are these protesters, and why is "Euro maidan" so much more ugly and violent than the Orange Revolution of nine years ago? What role is the ultra-nationalist "Right Sector" playing in this uprising, and who is paying for its expenses? RT takes you behind the barricades to get the facts."

From the COMMENTS of the people below the video:- MarkUs FinSki":The Ukrainians are a stupid sheep people, not seeing what USA and NATO countries were wanting to achieve. I don't think they still realize what just happened and that they are a lot worse off that before. The Maiden terrorist groups sold out Ukraine and were never Patriots whatsoever in the first place. I think Ukrainian people are to blame for Ukraine becoming Europe's Anus - What did Ukrainians think was going to happen from past experience with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq and Syria (Or Yemen)? Promises are never kept. And people are always a lot worse off than they were prior to the West interfering, propaganda and funding/arming the so called revolution/up-rising.﻿"

- Margo777London:"I am way too well informed.... This is why I live in London... Oh, well, at least one good thing came out of Maidan - it ended 23 horrible years of Ukrainian occupation of beautiful Crimea!! It is finally back home with Russia where it belongs!! :-)﻿"

- MrDex369:"It's so easy Americans and west Europe fucked up Ukraine !! And aim wasn't Ukraine but Russia, the Americans and westerners can't have classic war with Russia but to blame Russia for aggression on Ukraine than putting sanctions and in same time with one clap biting two targets Ukraine and Russia !!! Ukrainians have one chance left to regain their country, and it's connection with EUssia rebuilding economy and military straight !!!but I think Ukraine is very much infiltrated with all western secret service groups CIA, BND etc so they have only few possibilities to turn this disaster on different side !!! They should connect with Russia! Just look what's happened with Syria and Bashar el Assad !!!﻿"

- Carlos Valdes:"VERY SAD, BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND NOW ALL FUCKUP. SAME MODUS OPERANDI, SAME MANIPULATION THAT LAID THE ROAD FOR LONG CONFRONTATION, DESTRUCTION AND WAR, AND ALL FOR ……….$$$$$$$$﻿"http://www.trueorthodox.com/pictures/nulandjewhubbie.jpg​

U.S. Senator John McCain, center, speaks as Democratic senator from the state of Connecticut, Chris Murphy, second left, and Opposition leader Oleh Tyahnybok, right, stand around him during a Pro-European Union rally in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013 - the Lemniscat:"Graham, McCain, Nuland, Brennan and Biden all visit Kiev but it's Russia that's interfering in Ukraine? #Seriously???There's a detail that might cause McCain fans at home some concern. As the U.K.'s Channel 4 news points out, McCain was repeatedly photographed with Oleh Tyahnybok, the leader of the right wing nationalist party Svoboda. When it was founded in 1995, the party called itself the Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU), and it had a swastika-like logo. While it eventually split from its more right wing members, the party remained focused on celebrating Ukrainian ethnic identity in opposition to Russia and Communism.Tyahnybok himself was expelled from the Our Ukraine parliamentary faction in 2004 after giving a speech demanding that Ukrainians fight against a "Muscovite-Jewish mafia" (he later clarified this by saying that he actually had Jewish friends and was only against to "a group of Jewish oligarchs who control Ukraine and against Jewish-Bolsheviks [in the past]"). In 2005 he wrote open letters demanding Ukraine do more to halt "criminal activities" of "organized Jewry," and, even now, Svoboda openly calls for Ukrainian citizens to have their ethnicity printed onto their passports.

In the past, McCain has sometimes revealed a simplistic, Cold War viewpoint of Russia. You have to wonder if, by going to Ukraine and standing on stage with a man accused of being an anti-Semitic neo-Nazi, he may have shown that trait again." - from http://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-meets-oleh-tyahnybok-in-ukraine-2013-12

Western journalists have published photos of snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev shortly after 9 o’clock on the morning of February 20 and continued about seven hours later in the afternoon drawing to the bloodiest day. The photos prove that the shooters were from Ukraine. Most of the photographs accompanying that article were taken on February 20, and they appear to reveal the truth about who carried out the shootings in Independence Square on that day.

Policemen carry a colleague wounded during clashes with anti-government protesters in Kiev on February 18, 2014. (AFP Photo / Yury Kirnichny). The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs minister, which has emerged online.“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition,” Urmas Paet said during the conversation. “I think we do want to investigate. I mean, I didn’t pick that up, that’s interesting. Gosh,” Ashton answered.

U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone believes the CIA was responsible for a series of sniper assaults in Kyiv during the Ukrainian revolution last February, which left dozens dead.Stone is producing a documentary on the revolution, which began as protests in support of deeper economic ties with Europe and culminated in February with the ouster of pro-Russia Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

By Global Research NewsThe following letter by a young Ukrainian girl was brought to our attention. The letter translated from Russian depicts the drame of young girl, It describes the context of oppression prevailing in Ukraine’s capital directed against those who opposed the Maidan.

Unfortunately, I had to close all posts in my VK(VKontakte) about Maidan (they aren’t erased, but now are visible only to me) because after the Maidan “victory” in Kiev the real nightmare began. About that, people prefer not to speak because they are very much afraid. There are [Right Sector] militants everywhere.

On Sept. 9, NBCnews.com reported that “German TV shows Nazi symbols on helmets of Ukraine soldiers.” The German station showed pictures of a soldier wearing a combat helmet with the “SS runes” of Hitler’s infamous black-uniformed elite corps. (Runes are the letters of an alphabet used by ancient Germanic peoples.) A second soldier was shown with a swastika on his helmet.On Sept. 13, the Washington Post showed a photo of the sleeping quarter of a member of the Azov Battalion, one of the Ukrainian paramilitary units fighting the pro-Russian separatists. On the wall above the bed is a large swastika. Not to worry, the Post quoted the platoon leader stating that the soldiers embrace symbols and espouse extremist notions as part of some kind of “romantic” idea.Yet, it is Russian president Vladimir Putin who is compared to Adolf Hitler by everyone from Prince Charles to Princess Hillary because of the incorporation of Crimea as part of Russia. On this question Putin has stated:“The Crimean authorities have relied on the well-known Kosovo precedent, a precedent our Western partners created themselves, with their own hands, so to speak. In a situation absolutely similar to the Crimean one, they deemed Kosovo’s secession from Serbia to be legitimate, arguing everywhere that no permission from the country’s central authorities was required for the unilateral declaration of independence.

“The UN’s international court, based on Paragraph 2 of Article 1 of the UN Charter, agreed with that, and in its decision of 22 July 2010 noted the following, and I quote verbatim: ‘No general prohibition may be inferred from the practice of the Security Council with regard to unilateral declarations of independence.’”

Putin as Hitler is dwarfed by the stories of Putin as invader (Vlad the Impaler?). For months the Western media has been beating the drums about Russia having (actually) invaded Ukraine. I recommend reading: “How Can You Tell Whether Russia has Invaded Ukraine?” by Dmitry Orlov

And keep in mind the NATO encirclement of Russia. Imagine Russia setting up military bases in Canada and Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Remember what a Soviet base in Cuba led to.

https://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/16/hiding-ukraines-neo-nazi-reality/William Blum is an author, historian, and renowned critic of U.S. foreign policy. He is the author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II and Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower, among others. [This article originally appeared at the Anti-Empire Report, http://williamblum.org/ ]

Perhaps the biggest taboo of the U.S. mainstream coverage of the Ukraine crisis is to block out the role played by neo-Nazi militias in both the Feb. 22 coup and this summer’s bloody offensive in eastern Ukraine, but the ugly reality occasionally breaks through, as William Blum noted in Anti-Empire Report.By William BlumEver since serious protest broke out in Ukraine in February the Western mainstream media, particularly in the United States, has seriously downplayed the fact that the usual suspects – the US/European Union/NATO triumvirate – have been on the same side as the neo-Nazis.In the U.S. it’s been virtually unmentionable. I’m sure that a poll taken in the United States on this issue would reveal near universal ignorance of the numerous neo-Nazi actions, including publicly calling for death to “Russians, Communists and Jews.” But in the past week the dirty little secret has somehow poked its head out from behind the curtain a bit."